单词 | machinery |
释义 | machinery /meuh shee"neuh ree/, n. , pl. machineries. 1. an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory. 2. the parts of a machine, collectively: the machinery of a watch. 3. a group of people or a system by which action is maintained or by which some result is obtained: the machinery of government. 4. a group of contrivances for producing stage effects. 5. the group or aggregate of literary machines, esp. those of supernatural agency (epic machinery) in an epic poem. [1680-90; MACHINE + -ERY] Syn. 3. organization, structure, setup. |
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